The January book and activities are for grades 7-12. The January book selection is Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi.
"In a futuristic world, teenaged Nailer scavenges copper wiring from grounded oil tankers for a living, but when he finds a beached clipper ship with a girl in the wreckage, he has to decide if he should strip the ship for its wealth or rescue the girl."
Ship Breaker was on the 2011 Printz Award book list.
Please RSVP to Mindy Engler engler_m@ccsdistrict.org by 3:00 PM Friday, January 20 if you are participating in this month's activities. Please state if you want to receive the 8 LPDC hours, the 6.5 Staff Development hours, or both.
Discussions and lesson plans need to be posted by 9:00 PM Sunday, January 29.
We will meet to discuss the books on Monday, January 30 from 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM in the Timken Library. Please enter the Timken Commons from the 4th St. parking lot at Door 2. The Library is on the second floor up the big, blue staircase. Discussion Questions:
The January book selection is Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi.
"In a futuristic world, teenaged Nailer scavenges copper wiring from grounded oil tankers for a living, but when he finds a beached clipper ship with a girl in the wreckage, he has to decide if he should strip the ship for its wealth or rescue the girl."
Ship Breaker was on the 2011 Printz Award book list.
Please RSVP to Mindy Engler engler_m@ccsdistrict.org by 3:00 PM Friday, January 20 if you are participating in this month's activities. Please state if you want to receive the 8 LPDC hours, the 6.5 Staff Development hours, or both.
Discussions and lesson plans need to be posted by 9:00 PM Sunday, January 29.
We will meet to discuss the books on Monday, January 30 from 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM in the Timken Library. Please enter the Timken Commons from the 4th St. parking lot at Door 2. The Library is on the second floor up the big, blue staircase.
Discussion Questions:
Please make sure your cursor is below the last lesson plan added...
To add you lesson plan:
- Save your lesson plan as a word document.
- Name your lesson plan the title of the book - your name (Example: Scars-Mindy)
- Click on "Edit This Page" - make sure the curser is below "Please add your Lesson Plans here;"
- Click the File button on the Edit bar
- Click Upload Files
- Highlight your lesson plan
- Click Open
- Once your document is listed, double click on it. It "should" appear on this page.
- Click "Save" on the upper right hand corner of the Edit bar.
(or you can just email your lesson plan to me)Please add your Lesson Plans here: